On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:08:52 -0500, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > The current DRMs actually seem dumb. The DRM only enters commands
> > into the ring buffer as a response to ioctls from userspace, and if
> > the buffer is full, it will busy-wait for space to become available.
> > I haven't checked all drivers out there, but all that I've looked at
> > so far work like this.
> 
> I feel it's worth taking a run at doing that better.  The worst we can
> do is fail and have to fall back to sucking as much as everybody else.

We won't be doing any busy-waiting.  The interrupts you need will be
available, so all you have to do is block, wake up on interrupt, and
continue.

Busy-waiting is evil.  Busy-waiting in the kernel is unconscionable.
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